Tag: Jewish

Free Download The Kingdom of Israel: The History of the United Jewish Kingdom and Its Demise by Charles River Editors
English | August 18, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DDLFPCZ9 | 58 pages | EPUB | 2.01 Mb
Before any type of unified political entity named Israel existed, the Jewish groups whose descendants would later form Israel identified themselves by their particular tribe. If asked their nationality or country of origin, they would likely identify themselves as Danites (from the tribe of Dan; Ex. 31:6) or Ephraimites (from the tribe of Ephraim; Judg. 12:5), etc. The main way to differentiate these tribes from other tribes in Canaan was their common worship of the deity YHWH, but in terms of language or other cultural characteristics, it would have been difficult to tell a Canaanite from an Israelite.

Free Download A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom by Adam Jortner
English | August 2nd, 2024 | ISBN: 0197536867 | 344 pages | True EPUB | 18.26 MB
A new history that centers Judaism at the dawn of the United States

Free Download What is the secret of high Jewish achievements? by Samuel Greenberg
English | August 23, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DF5SR2HJ | 47 pages | EPUB | 0.84 Mb
What makes Jews successful in science and business?

Free Download History, Metahistory, and Evil: Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust (New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism) by Barbara Krawcowicz
English | January 26, 2021 | ISBN: 1644694816 | 242 pages | MOBI | 3.15 Mb
Much post-Holocaust Jewish thought published in North America has assumed that the Holocaust shattered traditional religious categories that had been used by Jews to account for historical catastrophes. But most traditional Jewish thinkers during the war saw no such overwhelming of tradition in the death and suffering delivered to Jews by Nazis. Through a comparative reading of postwar North American and wartime Orthodox Jewish texts about the Holocaust, Barbara Krawcowicz shows that these sources differ in the paradigms―modern and historicist for North American thinkers, traditional and covenantal for Orthodox thinkers―in which they emDescription historical events.

Free Download For Such A Time As This: On Being Jewish Today by Elliot Cosgrove
English | September 24, 2024 | ISBN: 0063417472 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 3.1 MB
A poignant exploration of what it means to be Jewish today, from a leading voice in modern Judaism, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue Synagogue

Free Download Howard Tzvi Adelman, "Women and Jewish Marriage Negotiations in Early Modern Italy: For Love and Money "
English | ISBN: 0367893096 | 2019 | 206 pages | EPUB, PDF | 430 KB + 2 MB
This book examines the role of women in Jewish family negotiations, using the setting of Italy from the end of the Renaissance to the Baroque. In ghettos at night and under the scrutiny of inquisitions, Jews flourished. Life and learning were enriched by Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, the Ottoman Empire, transalpine Europe, west and east, and Catholic neighbors. Rabbinic discourse represented conflicting customs in family formation and dissolution, especially at moments of crisis for women: forced betrothal; physical, mental and financial abuse; polygamy, and abandonment. In this book, case studies illustrate the ambiguity, drama, and danger to which women were exposed, as well as opportunities to make their voices heard and to extricate themselves from situations by forcing a divorce, collecting or seizing assets, and going to Catholic notaries to bequeath their assets outside traditional inheritance, often to other women. Despite intrusion by rabbis, their ability for coercion was limited, and their threats of punishments reflected the rhetoric of weakness rather than realistic options for implementation. The focus of this text is not what the law says, but rather how it enabled individual Jews, especially women, to speak and to act.

Free Download A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking: The 10th Anniversary Edition by Marcy Goldman
English | January 1, 2009 | ISBN: 1770500030 | 403 pages | PDF | 19 Mb
The updated edition of a kitchen classic, now with 30 new recipes for favorite savory holiday dishes Keep age-old holiday traditions alive and start delicious new ones with A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking, nominated for a Julia Child Cookbook Award. Professional pastry chef and BetterBaking.com creator, Marcy Goldman has lovingly assembled a comprehensive collection of easy-to-follow, time-tested recipes from one of the world’s great baking traditions, from sweet raisin challah for Rosh Hashanah to apricot-filled Hamantaschen for Purim and velvety Shabbat marble cake. Now bring the warmth of the holidays into your own home with hundreds of easy-to-follow, time-tested recipes, certain to bring back old memories and create new ones.

Free Download Second Generation: Hungarian and Jewish Classics Reimagined for the Modern Table by Jeremy Salamon, Casey Elsass
English | September 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 0063317230 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 187.46 MB
From the chef and owner of Agi’s Counter in Brooklyn comes 100 classic Hungarian and Jewish recipes reinvented for a new generation.

Free Download Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP4B7342 | 2024 | 13 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 389 MB
Author: Joshua Leifer
Narrator: Eli Schiff
From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in. Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. Formed in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the settled-upon pillars of American Jewish self-definition (Americanism, Zionism, and liberalism) have begun to collapse. The binding trauma of Holocaust memory grows ever-more attenuated; soon there will be no living survivors. After two millennia of Jewish life defined by diasporic existence, the majority of the world’s Jews will live in a sovereign Jewish state by 2050. Against the backdrop of national political crises, resurgent global antisemitism, and the horrors of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Leifer provides an illuminating and meticulously reported map of contemporary Jewish life and a sober conjecture about its future.

Free Download Richard Antoun, "Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0742562093, 0742562085 | PDF | pages: 216 | 10.5 mb
The second edition of Understanding Fundamentalism provides a compelling and up to date picture of religious reactions against the modern secular world. Comparing Christian, Islamic, and Jewish fundamentalist movements, anthropologist Richard Antoun shows how all three share common characteristics. In each tradition, fundamentalists seek purity in an impure world, attempt to make the ancient past relevant to their contemporary situation, look to move religion out of the worship center and into every aspect of life, and actively struggle against the aspects of the modern world they regard as evil. The new edition addresses fundamentalism in the post-9/11 world, transnational religion, and the impact of religious migration on Afghanistan and Western Europe.